Cana­di­an fer­tilis­er gi­ant Nu­trien Ltd has com­plete­ly shut down its four am­mo­nia plants and one urea plant, de­spite talks by Gov­ern­ment to re­solve their port fee dis­pute.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has brushed aside crit­i­cisms from the Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (LATT) that the ap­point­ment of Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh as the na­tion’s ninth Chief Jus­tice was “a has­tened and trun­cat­ed process,” de­clar­ing she has “no re­gard for any­thing the eat-ah-food filth in the hi­er­ar­chy of the Law As­so­ci­a­tion says.”

Res­i­dents of Fyz­abad say they are elat­ed that an­oth­er son of the soil, this time Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh, has at­tained high of­fice, as the ninth Chief Jus­tice of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

With over 110,000 on­line ap­pli­ca­tions for the Na­tion­al Re­cruit­ment Dri­ve, along with thou­sands of phys­i­cal sub­mis­sions, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she is not sur­prised by the re­sponse, as em­ploy­ment was one of the main pleas cit­i­zens made dur­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ gen­er­al elec­tion cam­paign.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo says funds are avail­able to meet the Gov­ern­ment’s cur­rent wage oblig­a­tions and that ad­di­tion­al re­sources will be se­cured through Par­lia­ment if need­ed.

Bed­lam broke out in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day when Trade Min­is­ter Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj an­nounced that Gov­ern­ment would spend $1 mil­lion on a na­tion­al beau­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gramme to plant poui trees along high­ways—prompt­ing Port-of-Spain South MP Kei­th Scot­land to ac­cuse the ad­min­is­tra­tion of pay­ing for work CEPEP work­ers were al­ready do­ing.

Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne has warned that deep bud­get cuts could leave the cap­i­tal fac­ing a garbage cri­sis by Feb­ru­ary un­less the Gov­ern­ment re­vis­es its al­lo­ca­tions.

The Min­istry of Health has re­duced its ex­pen­di­ture for drugs and re­lat­ed sup­plies by $100 mil­lion for 2026, but Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has as­sured that the sup­ply to health cen­tres and hos­pi­tals will not be af­fect­ed.

Rel­a­tives of two women — both named Su­san — who were killed in a car ac­ci­dent in the Unit­ed States over the week­end, have launched a Go­FundMe cam­paign to re­turn their bod­ies to the Caribbean.

En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Min­is­ters Dr Roodal Mooni­lal and Ernesto Ke­sar have or­dered an ur­gent re­view of reg­u­la­tions gov­ern­ing Liq­ue­fied Pe­tro­le­um Gas (LPG) fol­low­ing a se­ries of dead­ly ex­plo­sions and fires linked to do­mes­tic gas cylin­ders.

High Court Judge Nali­ni Singh dis­missed kid­nap­ping and rob­bery charges against a taxi dri­ver last Tues­day, af­ter she found the State had erred in a pro­ce­dur­al mat­ter.

In his fi­nal case as an or­di­nary Ap­peal Court Judge, Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh, along with Ap­peal Court Judges Pe­ter Ra­jku­mar and James Aboud, al­lowed the ap­peal of NO­VO Tech­nol­o­gy and or­dered that the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty pay the le­gal costs of the mat­ter.